The choice to leave the label system and release a new LP on their own is one that 156/Silence made without hesitation; taking their future firmly in their own hands and making sure that new LP Irrational Pull gave no quarter. The Pittsburgh metal/core outfit stirred the pot quite successfully with Undercover Scumbag’s furious and candescent battery in 2018, but this new endeavour is a different bag entirely. Fully realised…
There are many reasons for which I love Disco Elysium. It’s one of my all time favorite games for its writing, its mechanics, and its flawless, mournful, gut-wrenching atmosphere. This atmosphere is created by a fearless dedication to the world in which the game is set, to its politics, to…
There’s a lot happening in the music world, and we here at Heavy Blog try our very best to keep up with it! Like the vast majority of heavy music fans, our tastes are incredibly vast, with our 3X3s in each Playlist Update typically covering numerous genres and sometimes a…
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! A lot of good stuff this week! New material from Astralborne, Imperial Triumphant, Omniarch, Killitorous, Kardashev, and Creature. Also check out Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger’s ebook on creativity! Then, cool people time with No One Lines Under the Lighthouse, Monster Train, Dispatches From Elsewhere, and Daniel Isn’t Real. Enjoy!
Bands showing off their musical intersectionality is one of my absolute favorite things to discover. Artists who blur the line between genres and sounds are just the most interesting ones to listen to. You question what you’re listening to a bit, so you’re listening more attentively to the record. You just dig deeper and deeper to find the thing that explains the record or artist only to find yourself finding more and more that confuses you. The confusion may be a nice thing to have in this particular case, but it’s still there. France’s Witches are just such a band,…
What a year it has been for melodic black metal! Several incredible albums have already been released in the genre,…
Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Remi VL is a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of…
Change is inevitable and is always accompanied with some level of discomfort. Miles Davis said it best: “It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change.” Make Them Suffer are no stranger to the term and have gone through some form of a change on every album they have released. How to Survive a Funeral is the fourth full length from the Perth, Australia band and sees them once again, shifting direction. To those unfamiliar, the band signed to Roadrunner Records in 2012 and released their debut full length,…
With the most unceremonious title of any track released in 2020, Heavy Blog presents “Steven”, one of the most bizarre…
Some albums feel specifically designed to propel music forward. Like their very existence is intended to challenge listeners’ notions about…
A thousand warmest greetings unto thee, Heaviest of Heavy Bloggers! I hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and sane during this mega weird ass time and despite the allure of the warming weather outside. Yes, I know this column is supposed to be about the soundtrack of doom and gloom, but I will readily admit that I enjoy a nice sunny day walk in my neighborhood and the occasional jaunt through the wilderness. I’m going to get on a quick soapbox here and say PLEASE BE SAFE, KEEP SOCIAL DISTANCE, LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND WEAR A…
About a year ago, I covered a trio of fantastic, jazzy releases from the Land Down Under. It’s been a…
“The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!” The classic line from a beloved movie said by someone whose creativity was beyond comprehension.…
It’s been said that there’s more to life than music and, while we remain sceptical, we’ve decided to test the premise with our new bi-weekly Cool People Column! Noyan and Eden already bring you great pop culture recommendations and discussions each week on Heavy Pod is Heavy, but why should they get to have all the fun? (Just because they essentially maintain and run the blog itself? I think not!) Now it’s the rest of the staff’s turn to share all the cool things from beyond the world of music that have been tickling their fancy over the last fortnight;…
